CILP Speaker Series: Assessing the Impact of Human Rights Litigation in the Americas

Time and Location

CILP Speaker Series will feature human rights litigator Viviana Krsticevic, Executive Director of the Center for Justice and International Law.

New England Law | Boston is thrilled to welcome human rights litigator Viviana Krsticevic to campus as part of the Center International Law and Policy Speaker Series: Assessing the Impact of Human Rights Litigation in the Americas.

Ms. Krsticevic has been a human rights litigator in the Inter-American Human Rights System for over two decades, working on some of the region’s most cutting-edge cases helping to protect men, women, and children throughout the Americas.

She is the Executive Director of the Center for Justice and International Law, one of the leading non-governmental groups to bring cases to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Ms. Krsticevic will share some of her first-hand accounts of litigating in a regional human rights system while also offering her assessment of the direct impact of this work.

Ms. Krsticevic received her law degree from the University of Buenos Aires, a master’s degree in Latin American Studies from Stanford University, and an LLM from Harvard University. She also teaches at the American University Washington College of Law.

This free on-campus event will start at 4:30 p.m. with a short reception. Light refreshments will be served. Questions? Email Lisa Laplante, llaplante@nesl.edu.